Jennifer LaPlante (she/her)
Chief Growth & Investment Officer, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster
Jennifer LaPlante is the Chief Growth and investment Officer for Canada’s Ocean Supercluster. In her role, she is responsible for supporting the OSC’s investment in innovation and commercialization of Canadian-created ocean technology to grow Canada’s ocean economy. Jennifer’s career has focused on data, analytics and technology. Before the OSC, she was the Executive Director of DeepSense supporting hundreds of companies across Canada to increase comprehension and adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Jennifer holds an MBA and an MSc in Computing and Data Analytics. She was a member of the AI Public Awareness Working Group under the Government of Canada Advisory Council on AI and co-founder of the Halifax Chapter of Women in Machine Learning and Data Science (WiMLDS).